Welcome to the Askew Gallery
Askew Gallery - a community spirited gallery at CP Architects
There is a new Art Gallery on Askew Road! A new gallery that offers a space to enrich the cultural community of Askew Road. It’s an initiative by Matt Hedges and Warren Hagues, partners at CP Architects, and is under their studio in a surprisingly light and large lower ground floor.
Our neighbourhood has a rich cultural heritage and has been the home or workplace of so many creatives over the years. Here’s just a few of them: Eric Ravilious, Julian Trevellyan, Mary Fedden, Emery Walker, Robert Graves, William Morris, Henry Moore, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Ruskin Spear, Alfred Daniels, Roger Daltry, Frederick Marryat, Millie Small, George ‘Peckings’ Price - and no doubt you can name many more.
Today the area is still humming with artistic talent and our aim is to create a home where this can be put on show and celebrated to the benefit of the whole community. We’ll also be open to ideas that bring artists from further afield to an accessible location for our community.
We are planning on having a schedule of artist-led events throughout the year and are currently working on the details.
Askew Gallery @ CP Architects, 159 Askew Road, London W12 9AU
PLEASE NOTE: Access to gallery is down spiral staircase.
Instagram: @askewgallery
Upcoming Exhibition - Contour & Canvases
Join us for Contour & Canvases - Abstraction in Art & Ceramic Exhibition.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
ROZ WALLIS - Chiswick Pots - Runs the working artists’ studio/pottery school at the Chiswick Art School in Dukes Meadow, Chiswick
@chiswickpots
DAVID WINGFIELD - Local Contemporary Artist
@davidjcwingfield
The exhibition will be open at the following times:
OPENING NIGHT: Thursday 28th November 6-9pm
Friday 29th November - By Appointment Only (Contact David - davidwingfield@icloud.com)
Saturday 30th November & Sunday 1st December 11am-5pm
Monday 2nd December - By Appointment Only (Contact David - davidwingfield@icloud.com)
Past Exhibition – OUR ASKEW ROAD
Part of the Askew Road Arts Festival
EVENT DETAILS - Wednesday 18th September - PV 5.30-8.30pm
GALLERY OPEN - 18th-25th September - 12-5PM Daily
FRIDAY 20TH September - 5-6pm Film Show
OUR ASKEW ROAD
An exhibition of Paintings, Photographs and Film
CLAIRE McAULEY
HARRIET CHALLIS
WITH
VOCTOR McAULEY, SUSI ROWELL & SOPHIE ROBINSON
THIS ASKEW GALLERY EXHIBITION IS GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
CLARE McAULEY
ORDINARY PEOPLE, EXTRAORDINARY LIVES
Clare McAuley has found her passion, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories. Clare has created a vibrant mural especially for the festival responding to the lively community of Askew Road.
Clare has a real talent for capturing the characters of our neighbourhood and you will be entertained by recognising many a familiar figure. Don’t miss this extraordinarily enthralling artwork – an important contribution to the artistic heritage of Askew Road. The mural is created from a series of eight panels that will be available for sale. Clare will also be showing a number of her portrait works.
As an artist Clare gets excited at the everyday, the average and the normal. People in a bus queue, the way each person stands, the colour of a person’s clothes. All this becomes movement and pattern, and conveys an emotion and a feeling of familiarity.
She snaps people on the street, sometimes she asks, but mostly she likes the movement of a walking, preoccupied crowd. These pictures become quick sketches that she cuts up and tries with coloured paper, or alters digitally on her phone or iPad, and then paints.
She started primarily as a portraitist, which she has done professionally since 2019. She has always found herself motivated to paint people. Since then her work has changed to allow more colour and surreal aspects.
Follow Clare @claremcauleypainter
CLARE IS PERSONALLY SUPPORTED BY HER GREAT FRIENDS AT
HARRIET CHALLIS
ASKEW ROAD - THEN & NOW
This exhibition reminds us of local history by matching old photographs with, where possible, their exact contemporary views. The aim is to create a direct visual link with previous lifestyles and past events - in the future people will probably look back at our transport, fashions and architecture in the same sort of way.
Harriet has lived locally for 20 years. Askew Road is her home - her children have been brought up here. She has re-ignited her lifelong love of photography although she still takes on selected Garden Design projects - work she’s undertaken for 25+ years.
She is passionate about the art of capture and you’ll only find her camera set to manual. Her aim is to imbue every image with beauty, emotion and character.
Photography is an essential tool in her world as she can’t visualise or evoke any inner senses. This means that memories of people and places may slip away unless she creates an image to refer to.
Naturally empathic and relaxed, she strives to form a connection in portraiture sessions as this is the best route to a great result. A sense of fun and adventure can lead her in any direction so open mindedness is essential, allowing her to react spontaneously and authentically to the surroundings. She works hard to find the best compositions, colours and corners in the most beautiful light.
Harriet’s images have been described as painterly & cinematic - like a ‘film still’. This year she narrowly missed the final cut for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, reaching the final shortlist.
Follow Harriet @harrietchallis
www.harrietchallis.com
THIS EXHIBITION IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY:
CLARE McAULEY
HARRIET CHALLIS
Past Exhibition
CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
An Exhibition of Prints & Paintings
1-6 OCTOBER 2024
Past Exhibition - 3rd-7th May 2024
Our first exhibition is For the Love of Flowers, bringing together three local artists inspired by their passion for flowers:
Isabel Dodd works in textiles to recreate the structures and shapes of individual flowers into sculptural pieces
@Isabel.dodd
Kate Fishenden will show a collection of silkscreen prints based on her watercolours of flowers
@starch_green
Philippa Smith, floral designer, will be creating floral installations, highly Instagrammable!
@francissmithflowers
The exhibition will be open from the 2nd - 7th May, 2024. You are warmly invited to the Private View on 2nd May 5pm - 9pm - speeches at 7pm.
Opening Times: 2nd May 5.00pm - 9.00pm
3rd – 7th May 12.00pm – 5.00pm
PLEASE NOTE: Access to gallery is down spiral staircase.
We are delighted that Philip Wooller is supporting the exhibition.
Events & Workshops
We are going to have a number of events and workshops featuring Isabel, Kate and Philippa over the 5 days of the exhibition within the exhibition space.
Thursday 2nd May 5.00pm – 9.00pm Private View
Saturday 4th May 12.00pm – 2.00pm Meet the Artists
PLEASE NOTE: Access to gallery is down spiral staircase.
Book Workshops Below:
Gallery Shop
The Gallery Shop will feature a range of cards, prints, T-Shirts, Tea Towels and other flower related gifts exclusive to the gallery shop
Opening Times: 2nd May 5.00pm - 9.00pm
3rd – 7th May 12.00pm – 5.00pm
PLEASE NOTE: Access to gallery is down spiral staircase.
About the Artists
Isabel Dodd
Textile artist and Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art Textiles BA
Passionate about flowers, Isabel takes inspiration from flowers grown in her own cutting garden and recreates the structures and shapes using a composite fabric to create flower art pieces.
Insta @isabel.dodd
Philippa Smith
Floral designer and founder of Francis Smith Flowers
Philippa brought Francis Smith - flowers with meaning, into existence in the autumn of 2018, stemming from the idea of bringing floral sublimity to West London whilst celebrating the symbolism & meaning of flowers. She has since blossomed into an established London Florist, creating florals for many weddings & events across the capital and further afield. www.francissmithflowers.com
Insta @francissmithflowers
Kate Fishenden
Artist printmaker
Spending many hours drawing and painting flowers, Kate uses her watercolours as a start point to develop painterly screen prints where the multi-layering of transparent colours creates a luminosity and freshness that evokes the spirit of fresh flowers.
Insta @starch_green
Laura Edralin
Calligraphy artist
Laura is a local calligraphy artist and teacher sharing ways to help people support their wellbeing and mental health using creativity and mindfulness, through the art of calligraphy.
@lauraletterslife
Contributors
Starch Green
Artist Designers
Starch Green created all the branding, design and print-work for Askew Gallery and the Flowers Exhibition.
A studio of two artist designers - Kate Fishenden and Jonathan Mercer, just off the Askew Road.
Individually they are artists producing their own unique works. Together they create design solutions for clients, usually independent businesses local to their West London studio. Their sharp, strategic minds get below the surface of a problem; their sensitive, crafted design delivers beautiful branding.
Insta @starch_green
Warren Hagues & Matt Hedges
At CP Architects
CP Architects Ltd has been part of the Askew Road since 1992. During this time they have served their clients & undertaken many different projects including community buildings & clients’ homes. They have concentrated their work in West London. Their specific local knowledge, professional skills & impartial advice has been the key to realising projects whilst maximising the potential of their clients’ properties & budgets.
Insta @architectsw12
Philip Wooller - EXHIBITION SPONSOR
Estate Agent
Philip Wooller, admired estate agent on Askew Road, has generously sponsored the exhibition.
Insta @philip.wooller
EXHIBITION SUPPORTERS
Laylo is providing their award-winning boxed wines, Burnt Restaurant and October26 Bread and Books, both Askew Road businesses, are providing nibbles.
Insta @drinklaylo
Insta @burnt_restaurant
Insta @october26breadandbooks